On this day in 1959, the Eisenhower administration recognized provisional president Manuel Urrutia of Cuba. Secretary of State Dulles persuaded President Eisenhower, and so it happened. A month later, Fidel Castro was named Prime Minister, and we know the rest of the story.
A few years ago, I asked my late father: Did anyone think that Castro would turn Cuba into a communist state 90 miles from the US? He said no, but many were concerned with the “cult of personality” around Castro.
The cult of Fidel Castro, certainly what remains of it, is like people worshiping what amounts to a toxic turd. Anyone who partakes of it qualifies automatically as a comemierda at best.